“He's been in Haiti for the past two months.” “'Beg pardon'? He's been in Hawaii?” “No, Haiti.”
She received a 'presidential/royal pardon'. [=a pardon from a president or a king or queen]
The group wants the debt of the world's poorest countries to be 'pardoned'. [='forgiven']
(..) Elizabeth and I would lose track of the night, till just before daybreak. I think I may have given you the wrong impression. I beg your pardon? Well, married women don't customarily sit around in the middle of the night with strange men in hotels. I wouldn't know what a married (..)2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button